Simon Willison’s Weblog

The State of the Scripting Universe. More buzz for dynamic languages.

# 22nd March 2005, 2:59 pm

Strongbad scares Chapman. Great photo from the Home Star Runner panel at SxSW.

# 21st March 2005, 5:39 pm

Just how much power does Google need? And will they use the Columbia River for water cooling?

# 21st March 2005, 5:38 pm

Microformats could describe online news intelligently. Adrian’s been thinking about micro formats and online news.

# 18th March 2005, 5:42 pm

sxsw: leveraging solipsism. A write-up of one of the many excellent panels I missed.

# 18th March 2005, 2:37 am

Usable Security: Look Beyond the “Fundamental Conflict”. Security and usability are not conflicting goals.

# 18th March 2005, 2:27 am / ka-ping-yee, security, usability

Google Code. An online home for Google’s open source projects.

# 18th March 2005, 2:02 am

Nifty Corners. Rounded corners with no images and no crufty markup (JavaScript required).

# 18th March 2005, 2 am

Making Light: Virtual panel participation. Excellent thinking on the subject of online community moderation.

# 15th March 2005, 9:38 pm / moderation

SxSW Interactive. See you all in Austin!

# 10th March 2005, 8:18 pm

voice of humanity: The Annotated Web. I need to read this for my final year project.

# 10th March 2005, 8:17 pm

A CSS styled calendar. More CSS goodness.

# 10th March 2005, 8:16 pm

A simple introduction to 3 column layouts. Nice CSS tutorial.

# 10th March 2005, 8:16 pm

Fadomatic—DHTML opacity effect. Can you tell I’m clearing out my tabs before departing for SxSW?

# 10th March 2005, 8:16 pm

Event Cache. For avoiding memory leaks in Internet Explorer.

# 10th March 2005, 8:15 pm

Combining XMLHttpRequest and Rails to Produce More Efficient UIs. Ruby on Rails is setting itself up to be THE framework for Ajax work.

# 10th March 2005, 8:10 pm

The Digital Edition Dirigibles. Worth reading just for the stuff about Zeppelins.

# 10th March 2005, 8:08 pm

Clearing floats on Quirksmode (via) PPK’s writeup of the new overflow:auto technique.

# 10th March 2005, 8 pm

Taming the back button. That most elusive of browser features.

# 10th March 2005, 7:59 pm

Google News, now with customisation (via) Very nice use of drag and drop for the interface.

# 10th March 2005, 8:22 am

apophenia: fuck the SXSW etiquette guide (via) Point.... counter-point.

# 10th March 2005, 6:32 am

The unofficial geek guide to getting over yourself at SxSW Interactive 2005. I gotta get me one of those smilie stickers.

# 10th March 2005, 6:31 am

wush.net Subversion hosting (via) Subversion and Trac hosting for $20/month.

# 9th March 2005, 11:56 pm / subversion, trac

journal [paulhammond.org]. Paul’s back.

# 9th March 2005, 8:28 pm / paul-hammond

Not linking is not security. Ridiculous: Harvard rejects applicants who “hacked” by guessing a URL.

# 8th March 2005, 8:47 pm / harvard, outrageous, security

Google Desktop Search SDK. Note the reference to the “long tail of applications and file types”.

# 7th March 2005, 10:22 pm

The on-demand blogosphere. I get a bit-part in a Jon Udell screencast! This actually ties in to my final year project...

# 7th March 2005, 9:31 pm / jon-udell

From the archives of The Scotsman. In 1865, newspapers were formatted much like blogs.

# 7th March 2005, 5:27 pm

Are Confirmation Dialogs Harmful? (via) Undo beats confirmation dialogs every time.

# 7th March 2005, 3:56 pm

Greasemonkey Stole Your Job (and Your Business Model) (via) “It’s so meta” in the comments made me chuckle.

# 7th March 2005, 3:48 pm / greasemonkey